On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:39:46AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > > > Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate > > > the lbtouch-support into the psmouse-driver since there is no real way > > > of deciding if the device you are talking to is REALLY a > > > lifebook-touchsreen or not. > > ... > > > IMHO the driver should be standalone and the user should decide which > > > driver he wants to use. As default the touchscreen-functionality will be > > > disabled and only the quick-point device will work like a normal > > > PS2-mouse. > > > > I just want to point out that this is a problem for distributions and > > for not-so-technical users. > > > > Is there *really* no way to know if you're on a lifebook? Can't you use > > say the DMI identification mechanism to find this out ? If so, I think > > integrating into the regular driver very much is the right thing to > > do... it makes things JustWork(tm) for users without any need for manual > > configuration (which also makes distribution makers happy). > > Yes that would be nice. But the lifebook-touchscreen hardware is also > used in other notebooks. For example the Panasonic Toughbook CF28. But > we could still use DMI to check whether we are on a lifebook b-series > and then initialize the hardware. This would still get 95% of all cases. > For all the other ones we would have to provide some kind of > force-switch. Or simply another entry in the DMI table for the Toughbook, and for the few others who use this kind of touchscreen controller.
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